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“hold my beverage”;

Ohh, I need to VPN into nyc or california before trying to cancel my new york times subscription.

This reminds me of the kids in MR. Deeds.

Kid 1: What are you going to do with your $20,000

Kid2: quit school

Homeless man: good idea, school is for fools!!

People who have the disposable income to buy $8,000 personal robotic assistants or $20,000 1X Neo are a lot more likely to live in larger spaces. I've got about 1,000 sqft per occupant in my home. Plenty of room for a C-3PO or Johnny 5.

Perhaps that's how aliens would see humans. Perpetually trying to die except for a small group of humans fighting disease, monitoring and protecting climate, keeping order, etc.

Kinda sounds like "not slavery" with extra steps

Gotta move to the EU and sue based on right to be forgotten

I don't blame someone for working at facebook, but I don't think most of you realize how cash money a FANG company looks on your resume to IT managers at the lowly normal companies. Go work in financial services, insurance, retail, go be a contractor and work/travel until you find what you like.

Back in the day... 2004-2005 facebook was amazing. Spread like wildfire, and lots of fun to use. Just you and your college friends, and their friends.

AI sovereignty, not AI efficiency. Redesign AI chips with lower power density and higher thermal tolerances and you get more efficient radiation with some sacrifice in compute power. But you are outside the jurisdiction of every country.

Then you get people paying much more money to use less-tightly-moderated space-based AI rather than heavily moderated AI.

Defence attourney: "Judge, I object"

Judge: "On what grounds?"

Defence attourney: "On whichever grounds you find most compelling"

Judge: "I have sustained your objection based on speculation..."

Imagine a senior dev who just approves PRs, approves production releases, and prioritizes bug reports and feature requests. LLM watches for errors ceaslessly, reports an issue. Senior dev reviews the issue and assigns a severity to it. Another LLM has a backlog of features and errors to go solve, it makes a fix and submits a PR after running tests and verifying things work on its end.

When robots start sending us bullets, we'll probably look back fondly at the time when they sent us thank you letters.

The “nostalgia” of Playing Grandia, on Sega Saturn

How long before it creates a folder named meth den and just holds up in there for a couple weeks at a time.

It’s a bit like obscuring the less-used functions on a TV remote with tape.

It’s like creating a new tv controller with fewer options.

Under the grant rules programming languages must be strongly typed. No strings identifying as an int, etc. :-)

Things that need work necessarily cost money. Someone doing the work for free is not inherently sustainable. Profits motivate work to get done all on its own. Profits by definition is money over and above expenses. So it creates a perpetual sustainable mechanism. Competition motivates quality and efficient pricing (eventually).

Lobbying corrupts this a bit. However they are not lobbying to suppress private competitors only government-run competition that has no profit motive or competition. When the government runs it we still pay for it, except now people who don’t use it also pay. Also wealthy people pay a disproportionate share as compared to their use due to progressive income tax.

In theory anyone can start a company if they have a better or more efficient product or offering and get the profits instead.

Thats the rationale in a nutshell.

I'm worried all that cheap easily accessible LLM capacity will be serving us ads if we're lucky and subtly pushing us to use brands that pay money if we're not.

If AI says don't buy a subaru it's not worth the money, then Subaru pays attention and they are willing to pay money to get a better rec. Same for Univerisites. Students who see phrases like "If the degree is from brown flush it down" (ok hyperbole, but still) are going to pick different schools.

Those extra ounces will build muscle. Those extra hundreds of dollars you save won’t hurt either.

I just picture Charlie from “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” connecting the dots.

It’s the mark of a good programming language that you can, with sufficient effort, write bad code.

Do some people just mentally insert the word “people” after every occurrence of the words “black” or “white” they happen across in their daily lives?

And then decide whoever used them had malicious intent?

This. Pokemon likely has an a la carte menu and platforms can choose which seasons they want.

Streaming services have a limited budget for kids content so they can’t catch em all without sacrificing other kids content. They need pokemon they need action they meed rainbows and princesses and they needs stuff for babies and toddlers.

This is a bit like getting mad that Adam Sandler made another movie. It costs you nothing that stuff other people like exists. Don't waste energy on it.

I bought a digital only PS5 and bought like 6 games for it. I went into it understanding the limitations and like not having to swap out discs. PS5 is just a tiny sliver of my life which is busy and complicated and I’m paying for the simplicity. I’m ok letting go of such a small amount of control.

Experts warn that at current production levels, the supply of dick pics may actually outpace demand in a couple decades.

Exactly. You're not paying more for the same ride. You are paying to have some time alone. To not have to deal with others where you can listen to an audiobook, have a conversation on your phone that feels private or other things.

Apple might still appeal to a higher court and lean heavily on that donation to Trump for legal support. They as much as said they would appeal the decision.

A game that is not on a computer... So they don't even calculate damage or move distance for you. And you have to buy each figurine and paint it yourself...

And people are spending all their money on this? That's why we're not mining asteroids right now?

I feel like people could just use AR glasses for this and spend nothing but their time.